Dandelion Farmer
"If dandelions were hard to grow, they would be most welcome on any lawn." ~ Andrew Mason I've dedicated this year to learning about herbs and how to use them. I am certain that I will now be spending the rest of my life on this journey. I'm hooked. As I've learned to...
May- Mid June… and it’s still raining.
'Summer is coming, summer is coming. I know it, I know it, I know it. Light again, leaf again, life again, love again,' Yes, my wild little Poet. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, from The Throstle Hello from June 17th! Extremely-rainy-May has merged into...
April
Nothing is so beautiful as Spring- When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush Through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring The ear, it strikes like lightnings to hear him sing; The glassy peartree...
March: Starting Seeds and Lucky-Lamb Lives
"Now say to yourself five times, and believe it... ""This is March. The main thing to do in March is to don't. I don't dare do much in my garden.. because I know this old fellow March; he fools me every time." ~ Alfred Carl Hottes, BHG garden editor, 1933 Come March,...
Lambs, Lambs, Lambs… (February on the Farm)
Come, sweetheart, listen, for I have a thing Most wonderful to tell you - news of spring Albeit winter still is in the air And the earth troubled, and the branches bare, Yet down the fields to-day, I saw her pass - The spring - her feet went shining through the grass...
January on the Farm
Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each. ~ Henry David Thoreau ~ I discovered the above Thoreau quote shortly after we moved to our farm eight years ago, and I have had it...
It’s a New Year
Tap, tap... is this thing on??? It has been 14 months since I've written here. Every November I receive a bill for the domain name and web hosting for this website, and I have to make a decision.... to renew or not to renew. It is a respectable chunk of change, and so...
Morning Time: The Heart of Our Homeschool
When I sent my kids to school two years ago after many years of homeschooling, what I grieved most was the loss of Morning Time. It was the heart of our homeschool and consequently of our family. And though I had vague intentions of maybe trying to keep it up on...
Light a Candle
"It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness." ~Eleanor Roosevelt This morning I woke up to rain drumming the roof, a dreary Monday, the 70-somethingth day of quarantine, ahead of me a full day helping five kids do school at home and doing farm chores in...
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